If there is one thing to remember about Badawi, it’s how he reformed Malaysia’s one party democracy to the road of multiple parties democracy and to the power of the people.

Without being disrespectful, Badawi did it all the way "sleeping" with little or no interference.

Unlike his predecessor Mahathir who did ‘everything’ himself, even choosing the bolts and nuts to be used for constructing the Twin Towers.

Of course both are exaggerations but they illustrate the point I am trying to make.

• During Mahathir’s rule, Mahathir thought what was best for the country and acted upon his ideas.
   
• During Badawi’s rule, Badawi opened the way for Malaysia to be governed by the power of the people.

It’s clear that in a political landscape where a man like Mahathir oversees everything, there is little or no place for new forces to form to oppose the government.

• The latter would be acceptable when such a central government erases all the causes for an opposition to be formed.
   
• The latter is unacceptable when a central government erases all opposition to be formed.

However, sleeping his way through parliament wasn’t ideal to speed up the process of transparency and putting a hold to corruption.

But then, how to rule a country when everybody is asking you to go?

Badawi has been subtle in changing the political landscape. Just like Badawi loves farming, it seems he cleared the field for a ‘multi parties democracy’ to grow.

How much you criticize Badawi for not doing much, you must understand that clearing a field of all weeds takes lots and lots of energy and during the weeding process you aren’t harvesting anything.

And when Badawi planned to clear the political weeds in 8 years, it could be very volatile that at the moment the field has just been cleared: another planter takes over…

That’s having done all the dirty work and then seeing your new land taken away from you by somebody else.

• We hope that Badawi has put very strong seeds in Malaysia’s democratic soil that can withstand any new farmer using even the strongest weed-killers.
   
• We also hope that the few plants Badawi planted during his legacy, won’t be uprooted by his successors.

Badawi’s legacy is clear though: plant the trees of a new democracy: as Badawi’s trees will grow even when Badawi is sleeping.

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Download CNN news ticker here or just switch on your TV and watch the "breaking news" about Mumbai - cowboy CNN style:

 

• death toll rises to 87, 185
   
• Deccan Mujahideen is a little known group

First the amazing numbers of death people in Mumbai: can you really kill 87, 185 in one go? That must have been an atomic bomb?

This is where CNN get’s very misleading: there are actually only 87 people killed, and 185 is the number of hurt people.

That’s still 87 people killed to many…

To get rid of this confusing news, we advice you to download the CNN news ticker which said clearly :

"almost 90 killed in Mumbai rampage":

Why download the CNN news ticker?

Because once you have the CNN news ticker on your computer, you can get more in depth information about the "Deccan Mujahideen is a little known group".

I mean, you must be a silly idiot to write on the worldwide renowned CNN news TV that you know little about Deccan Mujahideen.

Even if you know little, at least say how little you know in stead of just saying little.

Luckily there is the BBC news that on the spot gives you in depth information about who is doing what for which reasons, where CNN is still reporting the amount and the colour of blood that has been spilled in Mumbai.

CNN TV is really said when it comes to in depth information but they are great when it comes to breaking news.

That’s why I downloaded their CNN news ticker long time ago already: when something is shaky in the world of business travelers, they will be the first to announce which place is under attack and therefore not safe to travel to.

Who is Deccan Mujahideen in the CNN TV news ticker?

• Deccan refers to the Deccan Plateau in southern India and
   
• Mujahideen are Muslim fighters involved in Jihad - the so called Holy war to defend  Islam against its enemies.

They attacked the Taj hotel in Mumbai and where looking for US and UK hostages. You wonder why exactly those 2 targeted are also the 2 I just mentioned for their international news coverage. Take a German hostage and most likely you won’t get covered worldwide on the news.

Maybe CNN and BBC news should change their reporting strategies or other countries should get more involved covering the news world wide. So far Al Jazeera and German’s DW are rising stars but can’t compete with CNN or BBC.

How to download CNN news ticker

The news ticker comes as an executable file and you can download the CNN news ticker for free at http://edition.cnn.com/services/desktopnews/.

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If you blog for money, then you will surely need Dragon Naturally Speaking software.

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This is an excerpt from a white paper discussing how bloggers can earn more money through several different monetization and freelance writing services. It shows that bloggers that utilize Dragon Naturally Speaking can earn more money through these various services and how fast these extra earnings will pay for the software itself.

 

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with High PayPerPost Earnings

 

In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn if you wrote for PayPerPost.com. Now at PayPerPost.com, the amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.

 

PayPerPost.com offers up opportunities, they call them opportunities, but you can also think of them as piecework or a job, and these "opportunities" typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 200 words for your average article. In general the average article at PayPerPost on a high earning blog pays about $28. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more.

 

Now if you are paid $28.00 to write a 200 word article, which breaks down to about 14 cents per word. That is about 200 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com. I mentioned that only for comparison purposes, because PayPerPost.com limits you to writing three articles per blog per day. That means that you can’t write there all day long for your single blog. (If you have additional blogs, you might be able to write additional articles on those other blogs.)

 

But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, if we assume that you could type articles at PayPerPost for fifty minutes straight, earning 14 cents per word, and you could type 35 words per minute, and then you could earn a $245 dollars per hour at PayPerPost. Now obviously, there’s not that much work there, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. That $245 would be the earnings you could make from about 8.8 Opportunities at $28 per Opportunity.

 

So bear with me with this example.

 

So what can faster typing skills do to help you earn more money and PayPerPost?

 

Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $805 per hour more!

 

Reminder - This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.

 

But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $245 from writing about nine articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.

 

• 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
   
• 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute

 

Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.

 

Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:

 

• promoting your blog,
   
• networking with people,
   
• researching other projects,
   
• taking on other work from other networks
   
• building up a new blog to command $28 per article!

 

You can pocket your $245 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.

 

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